Some updated pics!

So we've been doing more work on the house with curtains and hanging pictures. Thought I'd share a few more.  The first two are the kitchen. In the kitchen there is a good sized window by the table which you can see into from the street. SO when Erin was here she helped me pick out some burgandyish material that matches the backsplash and we made curtains. Then on the "side" of the kitchen is a door and other window.  So I used the leftover material to make a matching curtain for the window and then had some fun with the door. You may remember from the old house I had a little curtain for every season/holiday. I couldn't give those up so I put blinds on the door with my every changing curtain as a valance. So far I like it.  We'll see how bad some of the other seasons clash! :)  The other pictures are of the living room now that it has pictures up and for the most part is completly set-up.  More pics of other rooms as they are clean and get set up!

Kitchen curtains by the table

Other kitchen curtain then blinds & my
seasonal curtain

Living room with pics up

living room with pics up

living room with pics up

Now for the real pics!

Ok now I can start putting up some of the house as it is getting unpacked. So we moved all our stuff in on Tuesday and then all of these were taken Friday morning before we went to the airport to pick up our very first house guests-Erin and Jeff. I'd say we did pretty well. :) Since these were taken we've unpacked more, added curtains, etc. but it's a start. Also we only took some of the rooms so there's more to go in the department too. So far we are loving the new house. It's great to not have to ask permission to do stuff and the amount of room is crazy! Logan is on nights this week so the shorter commute has already paid off. We'll continue to add pictures as we do work and the house is actually clean. As of right now I'm not putting up anymore outside pics until I'm able to get the blog passworded. So in the near future please let me know if you want me to add you as a reader once I password it (parents and sibblings I already know to add you!) ENJOY! Oh and we have lots of room for visitors so please come see it in person.

Our bedroom

Our bedroom

Upstairs/Main bathroom

Kitchen/eating area

more kitchen/eating area

Looking into the living room

Another view of living room

Guest room in basement

temporary door on spare room

Bathroom inside guest room

Other basement bathroom
A.K.A. Logan's Michigan bathroom

Look close at his shower hooks.
Matching curtain to come :)

basement "rec room"

anothe view of "rec room"
don't you love the "fake" door?

still the rec room

Days 1-4 of homeownership

For all of you waiting for pictures I'm going to take a few mintues and put a some on. Of course many are already outdated as we are daily working at more unnpacking and settling in. I'm going to start at the beginning with Days 1-3 which were cleaning and then day 4 which was moving thanks to the wonderful help of people from church/school.

getting ready to clean

all my hard work

All my hard work

Moving day! Thanks to all the awesome help!

small aount of our ton of stuff

our make shift bed the first night
the boys liked it :)

Living room

Kitchen/eating room

Office

Extra room where we put all the boxes
we didn't know what to do with

OUR NEW HOUSE

As of this afternoon Logan and I are homeowners! We bought a house in Wheaton (Silver Spring for those of you not in Maryland). It's a great house and will give us lots more room and Logan a much shorter commute. We're excited though not sure the reality has totally set in yet. :) Its 4 bedrooms/3 baths. Its one floor with a walkout basement. The basement is finished which is awesome. Here are a few pictures from our first afternoon/evening in the house. Some are of the outside and the rest our of our picnic dinner complete with wine toast we had in the kitchen. Many more pics to come!

Trying to open the wine for toasting

More trying to open the wine



First dinner!

Our first dinner in the house



Toasting our first house!

Front of the house

another front view

Front view of house and our half of the driveway

Back of the house

Back yard and deck